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DALLAS (AP) — Petrea Hayes went back to school
Tuesday for the first time in nearly four months. And
although the grin was the same as before, and her eyes
were bright and darting, her teachers and friends could
tell something was different. Something wasn’t right.
She still wore her favorite straw hat, one that hides a
network of scars left by surgeons who, over the past
eight years, took turns attacking the spot in her brain
where a malignant tumor sat like a time bomb. Eight
times now, they have cut into her brain.
And she still walked with a limp, of course, because a
stroke several years ago had paralyzed her right side.
But she talked less and moved about more tentatively
now, after the latest round of medical assaults that kept
her hospitalized for almost three months. And she said
she was a little afraid of being run over by the mobs of
students packing the halls at Highland Park High
School. Never in her 16 years had she ever been afraid
of anything. Even death.
Doctors have pointed out that undergoing three ma
jor brain operations and several related surgical proce
dures within a 30-day period, as Petrea has just done,
can do strange, unexplainable things to anyone. And
though she has become something of an expert patient
who has defied the odds of survival, Petrea is no excep
tion.
Shes more shy, and she’s a little slower,” Kathy
•a!, ner ’ t ^ le n i n th-grader’s special-education teacher,
She says the computer keyboard looks blurred.”
She then smiled a big smile and added, “But she’s such
a neat, neat little girl. We’re all so happy she’s back.”
Indeed, her mother, whose name also is Petrea,
points out, “We’re just thankful she’s still with us.”
After all, eight years ago, surgeons in California, who
Performed the first five brain operations, at one point
Save up hope. She had neurofibromatosis, a genetic dis
order that causes fibrous tumors to form along the ner
vous system. In most cases, the tumors are benign. But
etrea s was malignant. When efforts to remove the tu-
mor failed, doctors gave their prognosis: She would live
no more than 90 days.
Today she is known as the family miracle,
he shrugs off the distinction. “I just want to be
reared like everyone else,” she has said.
Un Monday, for instance, she joined her classmates
°ra trip to the Rameses the Great exhibit at Fair Park.
“I asked her if she would like to have a wheelchair
alongjust in case, and she said no,” Kelchner said. “We
found out we were going to have to park a couple of
blocks from the exhibit and walk, and the bus driver
said he could let the two of us off closer to the door if
she’d like. But she said no, she wanted to do what the
other kids were doing.”
And she did, too, completing the day without a
wheelchair.
Petrea has been surprising people in Dallas for two
years, since she and her mother moved here from Cali
fornia and she enrolled at Highland Park’s McCullough
Middle School. In the eighth grade, she ran for vice
president of her class. And although she was defeated,
her classmates elected her to the Student Council.
At a walkathon last summer, her paralyzed right leg
in a brace, she made five laps around the quarter-mile
course.
This year, her first in high school, was interrupted in
a frightening way. The time bomb apparently was still
ticking.
On New Year’s Day, she was diagnosed as having
meningitis, an inflammation of the brain. Subsequent
tests revealed a disturbing growth on the left side of her
brain — the site of the tumor. Surgeons at Humana
Hospital Medical City Dallas performed three opera
tions, the longest lasting seven hours.
“We removed an abscess about like that,” said Dr.
Kenneth Shapiro, his hands illustrating a mass the size
of a grapefruit. “If we hadn’t operated, she probably
would have died.”
Since being released from the hospital last month,
Petrea has been receiving physical, occupational and
speech therapy daily at home. She’s more tentative now
than she was four months ago, her mother says, and
sometimes she struggles for words that used to come
easily. Her recovery has been psychologically painful, if
not physically so.
But whatever additional brain damage she might
have suffered during these past few months, there was
good news, too. Surgeons said the tumor had disap
peared.
“What happened to it?” Petrea’s mother asked.
At least this time, Dr. Derek Bruce, one of the sur
geons, found it easy to admit he didn’t know.
“Who cares?” he said. “It’s gone.”
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